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Our hotel room for the night in the Ryokan  
   

Our hotel room for the night in the Ryokan

Beppu

March 29th 2015
A nice welcome back from travelling was our first field trip of the new semester to Beppu. Beppu is a famous onsen town (hot springs) and is somewhere I'd been looking forward to visiting for a while. Our first stop was Usa shrine. I was really lucky to come back to beautiful blue weather which made it a pleasure to walk around the vast gardens of the shrine. The shrine itself was maybe one of ... read more
Asia » Japan » Oita » Beppu

Japanese Flag In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more
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